Young man brandishes assault rifle, aerial fire in Peshawar road rage

PESHAWAR: A brazen display of arms was witnessed when a young underage man brandished an assault rifle and resorted to aerial firing, ARY News reported.

The incident took place in the highly sensitive Cantonment area where an altercation started after an overtaking dispute.

The young man brandished the gun at his rival, while another person on a motorcycle attempted to control him from firing at him. However, no one was injured in the incident.

Things worsened when a young man took an automatic assault rifle amid the overtaking row and resorted to aerial firing. The car no. B-5258 belongs to an unidentified government officer.

Different vehicles with same number plate

It is also been found that several cars are registered under the same number in Khyber Pakthunkhwa. The investigations with regard to the number plate unveiled another fact that a number of vehicles in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have same number plate.

In Abbottabad Sadiq Abbas owns a Mehran car having number B-5258, while in Kohat Zarsaf Khan running his hi-lux with same magic number B-5258; another man Safeer in Mardan also own a Toyota Pickup with the same number.

The unknown young man who was brandishing assault rifle at busy Peshawar was also travelling in the vehicle with same number plate.